Dr Erich Round
Linguistics Discipline
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56892
Researcher biography
Dr Erich Round is currently on secondment to the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, and in 2018 was a British Academy Rutherford fellow hosted by the Surrey Morphology Group, UK. At UQ Dr Round was most recently an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow and director of the UQ Ancient Language Lab in the School of Languages and Cultures, UQ. Previously he was an NSF Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, where he also received his PhD in Linguistics.
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Lexical splits: a novel perspective on the structure of words (Arts & Humanities Research Council Grant administered by Uni of Surrey) Arts & Humanities Research Council Grant administered by Uni of Surrey |
2016–2019 |
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High-definition carbon-dating of linguistic pasts ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award |
2015–2018 |
Publications
Books
Gerd Carling, Abregov, Acherdan, Aliyev, Elnur, Avidzba, Leila, Cathcart, Chundra, Chukhua, Merab, Cronhamn, Sandra, Farren, Robert, Frid, Johan, Goergens, Anne, Greidanus, Josien, Gvantszeladze, Teimuraz, Hammarström, Harald, Holmer, Arthur, Johansson, Niklas, Khalilov, Madzhid, Kuckovic, Edin, Larsson, Filip, Larsson, Karin, Lomadze, Tamar, Novén, Mikael, Petrović, Ante, Round, Erich, Söderqvist, Kajsa, Tchantouria, Revaz, Tetradze, Maka, Tuptsokova, Larisa, Vamling, Karina, Van Epps, Briana, Verhoeven, Rob, Wikander, Ola and Zimmermann, Astrid The Mouton atlas of languages and cultures. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019.
Round, Erich Kayardild morphology and syntax. Oxford United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2013. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654871.001.0001
Book Chapters
Round, Erich R. (2019). Rara and theory testing in typology: the natural evolution of non-canonical agreement. In Oliver Bond, Matthew Baerman and Andrew Hippisley (Ed.), Morphological perspectives: papers in honour of Greville G. Corbett (pp. 414-446) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
Round, Erich (2017). The Tangkic languages of Australia: phonology and morphosyntax of Lardil, Kayardild, and Yukulta. In Mark Aronoff (Ed.), Oxford research encyclopedia of linguistics (pp. 1-7) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.159
Round, Erich (2017). Phonological exceptionality is localized to phonological elements: the argument from learnability and Yidiny word-final deletion. In Claire Bowern, Laurence Horn and Raffaella Zanuttini (Ed.), On Looking into Words (and Beyond): Structures, Relations, Analyses (pp. 59-98) Berlin, Germany: Language Sciences Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.495467
Round, Erich R. (2016). Kayardild inflectional morphotactics is morphomic. In Ana R. Luis and Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Ed.), The morphome debate (pp. 228-247) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Memmott, Paul, Round, Erich, Rosendahl, Daniel and Ulm, Sean (2016). Fission, fusion and syncretism: linguistic and environmental changes amongst the Tangkic people of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia. In Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Hafner, Diane (Ed.), Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country (pp. 105-136) Philadelphia, United States: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/clu.18.06mem
Round, Erich (2015). Yukulta and its relatives Kayardild and Lardil. In Nicola Grandi and Livia Kortvelyessy (Ed.), Edinburgh handbook of evaluative morphology (pp. 448-452) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
Round, Erich (2015). Rhizomorphomes, meromorphomes, and metamorphomes. In Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown and Greville G. Corbett (Ed.), Understanding and measuring morphological complexity (pp. 29-52) London, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198723769.003.0003
Round, Erich (2014). Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel. In Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (Ed.), Language description informed by theory (pp. 81-95) Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing. doi:10.1075/slcs.147.05rou
Round, Erich R. (2009). Syntactic reconstruction by phonology: Edge aligned reconstruction and its application to Tangkic truncation. In Rachel Hendery and Jennifer Hendriks (Ed.), Grammatical change: Theory and description (pp. 65-82) Canberra, ACT, Australia: Centre for Research in Language Change (CLRC); Pacific Linguistics.
Round, Erich and Evans, Nick (2004). Kayardild. In Karina Vamling and Jan-Olof Svantesson (Ed.), Världens språk: En geografisk och typologisk översikt (pp. xx-xx) Lund, Sweden: Institutionen för lingvistik, Lund University.
Journal Articles
Carling, Gerd, Larsson, Filip, Cathcart, Chundra A., Johansson, Niklas, Holmer, Arthur, Round, Erich and Verhoeven, Rob (2018) Diachronic atlas of comparative linguistics (DiACL)- a database for ancient language typology. PLoS ONE, 13 10: . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0205313
Cathcart, Chundra, Carling, Gerd, Larsson, Filip, Johansson, Niklas and Round, Erich (2018) Areal pressure in grammatical evolution. Diachronica, 35 1: 1-34. doi:10.1075/dia.16035.cat
Round, Erich R. (2017) "Phonological Typology" by Matthew K. Gordon. Folia Linguistica: Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae, 51 3: 745-755. doi:10.1515/flin-2017-0027
Rossetto, Maurizio, Ens, Emilie J., Honings, Thijs, Wilson, Peter D., Yap, Jia-Yee S., Costello, Oliver, Round, Erich R. and Bowern, Claire (2017) From Songlines to genomes: prehistoric assisted migration of a rain forest tree by Australian Aboriginal people. PLoS One, 12 11: 1-15. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0186663
Rossetto, Maurizio, Ens, Emilie J., Honings, Thijs, Wilson, Peter D., Yap, Jia-Yee S., Costello, Oliver, Round, Erich R. and Bowern, Claire (2017) From songlines to genomes: prehistoric assisted migration of a rain forest tree by Australian Aboriginal people. Plos One, 12 11: 1-15. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0186663
Ennever, Thomas, Meakins, Felicity and Round, Erich (2017) A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8 1: . doi:10.5334/labphon.18
Round, Erich and Corbett, Greville G. (2016) The theory of feature systems: one feature versus two for Kayardild tense-aspect-mood. Morphology, 27 1: 1-55. doi:10.1007/s11525-016-9294-3
Round, Erich and Stirling, Lesley (2015) Universals of split argument coding and morphological neutralization: why Kala Lagaw Ya is not as bizarre as we thought. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 35 3: 251-281. doi:10.1080/07268602.2015.1023171
Kwon, Nahyun and Round, Erich R. (2014) Phonaesthemes in morphological theory. Morphology, 25 1: 1-27. doi:10.1007/s11525-014-9250-z
Round, Erich (2011) Word final phonology in Lardil: Implications of an expanded data set. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 31 3: 327-350. doi:10.1080/07268602.2011.598630
Hunter, Jessica, Bowen, Claire and Round, Erich R. (2011) Reappraising the effects of language contact in the Torres Strait. Journal of Language Contact, 4 THEMA I: 106-140. doi:10.1163/187740911X558798
Round, Erich (2011) Function word erosion which is not a frequency effect: On exemplars and prosodic paradigm levelling. Lingua, 121 2: 287-301. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2010.09.006
Round, Erich R. (2011) Morphomes as a level of representation capture unity of exponence across the inflection-derivation divide. Linguistica, 51 217-230. doi:10.4312/linguistica.51.1.217-230
Round, Erich R. (2004) The subidentificational meanings of English some and Swedish Nagon: a comparative analysis of polysemy. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 27 2: 169-195. doi:10.1017/S0332586504001234
Conference Papers
Macklin-Cordes, Jayden and Round, Erich (2015). High-definition phonotactics reflect linguistic pasts. In: Johannes Wahle, Marisa Kollner, Harald Baayen, Gerhard Jager and Tineke Baayen-Oudshoorn, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics. 6th Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics Conference, Tubingen, Germany, (1-5). 4-6 November 2015. doi:10.15496/publikation-8609
Round, Erich (2012). Apical obstruents in pre-proto-Tangkic and the origins of the non-zero absolutive. In: Zenya Antic, Charles B. Chang, Clare S, Sandy and Maziar Toosarvandani, Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA, United States, (109-121). 10-12 February 2006.
Round, Erich R. (2012). Durational correlates of prosodic structure in Kayardild vowels. In: Felicity Cox, Felicity Cox, Susan Lin, Kelly Miles, Sallyanne Palethrope, Jason Shaw and Ivan Yuen, Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia, (221-224). 3 - 6 December 2012.
Round, Erich R. (2010). Tone height binarity and register in intonation: The case from Kayardild (Australian). In: Speech Prosody 2010: Conference Proceedings. Every Language, Every Style: Speech Prosody 2010, 5th International Conference, Chicago, IL, U.S.A., (1-4). 11-13 May 2010.
Paul, Paula, Loogatha, Netta, Loogatha, Amy, Thomas, Ethel, Loogatha, Dolly, Evans, Brett, Evans, Nicholas, Tomkins, Helene, Rosendahl, Daniel, Ulm, Sean, Round, Erich and Memmott, Paul (2009). Kayardilt fish names: Spoken by the Kaiadilt of Bentinck Island. In: xx, Mornington Island, Australia, (). 2009.
Round, E. (2005). Knowing the meaning of names in use, with particular reference to the appellative use of names in English and Swedish. In: Guido Ernst, Andrew Hurley and Katie Sutton, Contexts, contacts & constraints : School of Languages Postgraduate Research Papers on language and literature. University of Melbourne. School of Languages. 4th Postgraduate Conference, Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne, (47-64). 2003.
Round, Erich (2004). Case marking in Kalaw Lagaw Ya: Not as bizarre as we thought. In: Damien Hall, Theodore Markopoulos, Angeliui Salamoura, Sophia Skoufaki, F. Bonthuis, Michael Bertram Crowe and H. East, Camling 2003: Proceedings of the University of Cambridge First Postgraduate Conference in Language Research. CamLing 2003: University of Cambridge First Postgraduate Conference in Language Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (100-106). 26 April 2003.
Fletcher, Janet, Evans, Nicholas and Round, Erich (2002). Left-edge tonal events in Kayardild (Australian) — A typological perspective. In: Bernard Bel and Isabelle Marlien, Papers: Speech Prosody 2002: An International Conference. Speech Prosody 2002: An International Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, (295-298). 11-13 April 2002.
Creative Works
Round, Erich, Mushin, Ilana, Alvey, Elizabeth, Yu, Fei and Hornsby, Eric (2015) Indigenous voices of Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia, The University of Queensland.
Naranatjil, Dawn, Thomas, Ethel, Paul, Paula, Loogatha, Amy, Loogatha, Netta, Moondoonuthi, May and Round, Erich R. (2007) Ngunguk, bana ngunguk, bana ngunguk, bana ngunguk, bana ngunguk, bana ngunguk: Six stories by the women of Bentinck Island. New Haven, CT, U.S.A., Yale University.
Round, Erich R. (2007) Kaiadilt lullabies. New Haven, CT, U.S.A., Yale University.
Round, Erich R. (2007) Linguistic and ethnographic documentation of Kayardild. London, U.K., The Endangered Languages Archive, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Round, Erich R. (2007) Ngald (Us). New Haven, CT, U.S.A., Yale University.
Naranatjil, Dawn, Loogootha, Amy, Thomas, Ethel and Round, Erich R. (2005) Ngimiwaanda wurand (Night food). New Haven, CT, U.S.A., Yale University.
Goldstein, Louis and Round, Erich R. (2005) A first Kayardild audiovisual text corpus, with prosodic annotations. London, U.K., The Endangered Languages Archive, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Round, Erich R. (2005) Rarumbanda wangarr, rarumbanda ngunguk (Bentinck song, Bentinck stories). New Haven, CT, U.S.A., Yale University.
Round, Erich R. (2005) Bijarrb (Dugong). New Haven, CT, U.S.A., Yale University.